My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.
Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling.
Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'
When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
I never smile unless I mean it.
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.
My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.
Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.